BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Quartet in One Movement for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello
To Leon Goossens
Andante alla marcia -
2.
Cuckoo!, Op. 7 No. 3
1:53
from Friday Afternoons
Quietly –
Edited by Colin Matthews
For Sylvia Spencer
3.
The Grasshopper. Allegretto leggiero –
3:11
4.
The Wasp. Allegro molto e con fuoco –
2:02
Temporal Variations
14:52
Edited by Colin Matthews
To Montagu Slater
5.
I
Theme. Andante rubato –
1:49
6.
II
Oration. Lento quasi recitativo -
1:55
7.
III
March. Alla marcia –
1:14
8.
IV
Exercises. Allegro molto e con fuoco –
1:11
9.
V
Commination. Adagio con fuoco –
1:30
10.
VI
Chorale. Molto lento –
2:14
11.
VII
Waltz. Allegretto rubato –
1:41
12.
VIII
Polka. Tempo di Polka
1:20
13.
IX
Resolution. Maestoso
1:54
14.
I wonder as I wander
4:02
in B flat minor
No. 6 from Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements tune by, or collected by, John Jacob Niles published in Songs of the Hill-folk
performed on oboe and cor anglais
[Freely] –
15.
‘Cat’ and ‘Mouse’
3:54
from Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30
performed on oboe and cor anglais with piano
Quietly moving (Andante tranquillo) –
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49
14:42
For Joy Boughton
16.
I
Pan who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved.
2:23
17.
II
Phaeton who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.
1:35
18.
III
Niobe who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain
2:43
19.
IV
Bacchus at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and the shouting out of boys
1:53
20.
VI
Narcissus who fell in love with his own image and became a flower
3:09
21.
VI
Arethusa who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.
2:56
Solo: Allie Daniel
22.
Before Life and After, Op. 52 No. 8
3:40
from Winter Words
Quietly moving